Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 2 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |
| 3 | The navigator had survived with head injuries but the third crew member was O.K. I signalled to Athens asking them to designate the nearest airfield where I could pick up Brown and White in a Maryland . |
| 4 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |
| 5 | Coghill allowed him to understudy the leading part , ‘ the complicated sex-driven Puritan ’ , Angelo . |
| 6 | I gave similar advice when Harold Wilson asked me to advise the Labour Party about their behaviour in the matter . |
| 7 | When Deutsche Grammophon asked me to record the Alpine Symphony , I warned them that it would be very expensive . |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Newley told me to do the RTI expense sheet this morning . ’ |
| 9 | Not only had Auguste taken her to see the amusing Charley 's Aunt , but Alfred had escorted her to Ramsgate to see Harbour Lights . |
| 10 | Victoria had written to her mother , the Queen , in March asking her to inform the Foreign Secretary , Lord Clarendon . |
| 11 | Now and again the Lady Francesca asks us to take the good nuns gifts of embroidery . ’ |
| 12 | George Bush chose him to run the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) at a time when he still thought he could co-opt and not alienate the green lobby . |
| 13 | Bush persuaded him to resign the top foreign policy post and become White House chief of staff , in charge of the campaign . |
| 14 | Sotion and Ps. -Aristotle quoted them to confirm the remote origin of philosophy outside the Greek world ; but the main argument was represented by Magi and Brahmans who had a better and older reputation among Greek thinkers and historians ( Diog . |
| 15 | But before I went to Luggnagg , an official I had met in Lagado persuaded me to visit the small island of Glubbdubdrib . |
| 16 | Unfortunately there is all too little evidence from Britain to enable us to discern the precise nature of the relationship between the small towns and authority , although some tentative suggestions can be made . |
| 17 | Cairns-Smith invites us to perform the following experiment . |
| 18 | Next I listened to a message from Andy Kennedy talking about the unreached peoples of the 10–40 window , which includes Saudi Arabia , and how the Lord wanted them to hear the good news . |
| 19 | The main features were well known to most travellers , but Green wanted them to discover the lesser known tarns , valleys and fells of his beloved Lake District . |
| 20 | Target is therefore usually sold for a nominal sum and is then capitalised after the acquisition by Newco to enable it to repay the inter-company loans . |
| 21 | Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 . |
| 22 | Many anglers are hailing it as the most significant advance in fishing tackle during the past 20 years and Dave Chilton , the man who has popularised its use , believes that the line , made from the world 's strongest man-made fibre ( Lancia uses it to strengthen the internal bodywork of its cars ) , may revolutionise all branches of the sport . |
| 23 | If you go and get them get Paul to help you to remount the whole thing . |
| 24 | Wolfgang intended to write an opera for Paris , but Leopold warned him to study the national taste first , since his reputation would hang on his first piece . |
| 25 | For Aleksandras Macijauskas , photography began as a profession when Sutkus persuaded him to join the Lithuanian Photographic Society based in the capital Vilnius . |
| 26 | Eleven years as the principal tour operators in Nidri enable us to choose the best accommodation in town . |